ScaleX without squeeze

[mcdermitt]

I have a health bar graphic which has slanted ends (so it's a parallelogram, not a rectangle), and when I try to animate it in Flash to shrink anchored on the left center, the slanted ends gradually get straighter and straighter.

How do I get around this?

This is my image. It is scaled up in Flash by 200 percent.

[nezarov]

use width property instead of scaleX

[nezarov]

oh it's not a stroke then you'll get the same result! 😕

[nezarov · Accepted solution]

the only way is to cut the end and convert it to movieClip then animate it on x axes at the same time of scaling.. use the bar width as x value for "end_mc".

otherwise it'll be stretched.

[mcdermitt]

Ok, that'll do it! Thanks!

[nezarov]

You're welcome